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tetraallelic

tetraallelic adjective: relating to or composed of four alleles.

Adjective

tetraallelic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to or composed of four alleles.
    • However, we did not get embryos that have a tetraallelic knock-out of the exon by zygote injection […]2015 November 19, “The Expression of TALEN before Fertilization Provides a Rapid Knock-Out Phenotype in Xenopus laevis Founder Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of tetraallelic

From tetra- + allelic.

Questions about tetraallelic

What does tetraallelic mean?
Tetraallelic means relating to or composed of four alleles.
What part of speech is tetraallelic?
Tetraallelic is an adjective.

Words near tetraallelic in the dictionary

  1. tetraacylated
  2. tetraalkylammonium
  3. tetraalkylammoniums
  4. tetraalkynylsilane
  5. tetraalkynylsilanes
  6. tetraallelic
  7. tetraallelism
  8. tetraallyl
  9. tetraallyls
  10. tetraaluminium
  11. tetraamelia

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